I've been involved with cluster computing ever since DEC introduced VAXcluster in 1984. In those days, a three node VAXcluster cost about $1 million. Today you can build a much more powerful cluster ...

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Pepperdata, a company that’s built a platform for managing and fine-tuning Hadoop cluster performance, announced a $15M Series B funding round today. The round was led by new investors Wing Venture ...

It’s been a big year for Apache Hadoop, the open source project that helps you split your workload among a rack of computers. The buzzword is now well known to your boss but still just a vague and ...

Five years ago, many bleeding edge IT shops had either implemented a Hadoop cluster for production use or at least had a cluster set aside to explore the mysteries of MapReduce and the HDFS storage ...

Hadoop and MapReduce, the parallel programming paradigm and API originally behind Hadoop, used to be synonymous. Nowadays when we talk about Hadoop, we mostly talk about an ecosystem of tools built ...

When it comes to leveraging existing Hadoop infrastructure to extend what is possible with large volumes of data and various applications, Yahoo is in a unique position–it has the data and just as ...

If you're building a Hadoop cluster in-house and want more than the white-box experience, these hardware makers offer a gamut of Hadoop bundles Enterprise IT has long trended toward generic, white-box ...

Getting insights out of big data is typically neither quick nor easy, but Google is aiming to change all that with a new, managed service for Hadoop and Spark. Cloud Dataproc, which the search giant ...

Hadoop is a popular open-source distributed storage and processing framework. This primer about the framework covers commercial solutions, Hadoop on the public cloud, and why it matters for business.

As the world’s largest social network, Facebook accumulates more data in a single day than many good size companies generate in a year. Facebook stores much of the data on its massive Hadoop cluster, ...